should i take a stable coaching job or keep dirtbagging full time at 29?
ok real talk, not a climb beta question this time. im 29, been living outta my van for 4 years now, guiding and coaching wherever i can scrape gigs together, made like $22k last year before gas and rope replacement costs lol. my buddy's dad owns a gym chain and offered me a head coach spot, $58k a year plus actual health insurance, based in Bishop. still climbing adjacent, id be running youth teams and building routes, but its 5 days a week same walls same town every day. problem is i already put down a $1400 deposit on a Patagonia expedition for november that id have to eat if i take the job since they want me starting in october. my knees arent getting younger and my dirtbag savings account has $340 in it right now, not joking. but every time i picture giving up the road i get this pit in my stomach like im trading the whole reason i started this life for a paycheck and a couch. my mom thinks im finally growing up if i take it. my climbing partner Jake (31M) thinks im an idiot for even considering it, said i'd be dead inside by february. i genuinely dont know which version of me id regret more 馃敟
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